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  I'm not against technology - I'm just against stupid technology

  STEM educators are under pressure to offer classes online where it doesn't make sense. If English and Psychology can successfully offer online classes, why can't Chemistry or Physics? Because students have to wrap their fingers around the widgets in order to learn in STEM fields of study. I teach a weekend class; successfully taught a math class distance learning using live, tele-presence technology; and implemented ...more »

  STEM educators are under pressure to offer classes online where it doesn't make sense. If English and Psychology can successfully offer online classes, why can't Chemistry or Physics? Because students have to wrap their fingers around the widgets in order to learn in STEM fields of study. I teach a weekend class; successfully taught a math class distance learning using live, tele-presence technology; and implemented UT Austin's Quest online homework technology. I'm not against technology or innovation - I'm just against stupid technology. Let's use technology when it can help us improve; not use technology if it's of no benefit; and have the wisdom to know the difference.

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  Submitted by jtsizemore 2 years ago

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  Support STEM Student Research at Community Colleges

  Undergraduate research programs at community colleges have demonstrably increased the success and retention of underrepresented students. Unfortunately, community colleges lack the equipment and infrastructure for helping students carry out original research. A grants initiative aimed exclusively at community college undergrad research would stimulate the interest, participation, and success of our future STEM workers. ...more »

  Undergraduate research programs at community colleges have demonstrably increased the success and retention of underrepresented students. Unfortunately, community colleges lack the equipment and infrastructure for helping students carry out original research. A grants initiative aimed exclusively at community college undergrad research would stimulate the interest, participation, and success of our future STEM workers.

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  Submitted by William Chamberlin 2 years ago

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  Language/Reading skills and STEM

  Since Sputnik and an announcement that the United States would emphasize mathematics and science (which has since advanced to STEM--science, technology, engineering and mathematics), education in the United States has been remarkable in its downward slide, bringing about "the Summit." Why do leaders seem to consider reading and language skills secondary to STEM, forgetting that American English language skills are the ...more »

  Since Sputnik and an announcement that the United States would emphasize mathematics and science (which has since advanced to STEM--science, technology, engineering and mathematics), education in the United States has been remarkable in its downward slide, bringing about "the Summit." Why do leaders seem to consider reading and language skills secondary to STEM, forgetting that American English language skills are the ultimate basic skill used by United States' students to verbalize critically their thinking about STEM and their work related to and on STEM? Why wouldn’t including an emphasis on language skills—both reading and writing—help advance STEM? Why wouldn’t a change in teaching—such as problem-based learning—help students see relationships between their reading/language skills and their work on STEM?

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